Reviews tagging 'Outing'

README.txt by Chelsea Manning

12 reviews

gentle_garbage_baby's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

By reading this book, you get a sense of Chelsea's struggles throughout her life, and how boxed-in she has felt by different aspects of it, whether that be from a political/military standpoint and her ideals, or how she's dealt with her identity and how people around her responded to that. She's been through a whole lot of abhorrent stuff in her life, and she articulates it amazingly in this book. An excellent read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Suicide attempt, Dysphoria, and War

Moderate: Outing

Minor: Deadnaming and Alcohol

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

Wow. An amazing listen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Outing, Gaslighting, and War

rat_girly's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Harrowing, impactful, inspiring. Gave me a lot to think about, especially considering the US funded atrocities happening in Palestine at the moment. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Transphobia, Police brutality, Dysphoria, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Hate crime, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Outing, and Sexual harassment

annoyedhumanoid's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

intensely readable but i would have liked more. fuck the DOD for the redactions. the craziest part is that they PUT HER BACK IN JAIL for another year, not mentioned in the book. the injustice she faced/faces is so flagrant you almost forget the US has a constitution meant to protect against it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dysphoria, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Murder, Outing, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Deadnaming, Drug use, Sexual content, Xenophobia, and Blood

themorsecode's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Deadnaming, Physical abuse, Outing, and Gaslighting

nevial's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Outing, Alcohol, and War

eli99's review against another edition

dark emotional informative fast-paced

4.0

Every young civilian working on DOD contracts should read this especially if they're LGBT. 

Very insightful to something that was going at the same time as my youth that I didn't understand at the time. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Outing, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and War

rachbake's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Islamophobia, Suicide attempt, Outing, Dysphoria, and War

daralexandria's review against another edition

informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Suicide attempt, Outing, and War

Minor: Deadnaming

nibs's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

I read this as the March book for a queer lit bookclub. 
This book made me think. I knew the US military was cooked, but seeing the insideous and complicated ways this played out in Chelsea's life was something else. I really respected her writing - she was honest about her flaws and actions, including negative things. She's a real human and she'd explain the emotions behind these actions - not to gain sympathy but as a fact-based explanation on what lead to those actions. 
She got to tell her own story, something she mentions throughout the book as being important to her.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Transphobia, Outing, Dysphoria, and War